Top 1200 Moral Dilemma Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

The Civil War has a tremendous moral and emotional force.

I'm for moral blackmail when it comes to putting away child molesters.

There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

I must say that in my own mind, I think what's important is for us, as a society, to radically reduce the consumption of meat. This is more important than some fraction of us become moral saints and become vegetarians so it would be much better if we would reduce meat consumption by three quarters of each of us as an individuals would only eat one-quarter as much meat as we do now then that half of the population should become vegetarian. We should see this as a collective challenge rather than an issue about individual, moral period.

A very tall man once asked a question after my talk. Before beginning his question, he explained that the reason he was standing up is not to be intimidating but rather to make eye contact. His question was essentially "are we really interested in moral motives? Isn't it all about action?". I pointed out to him that it was not enough for him to do the right thing - stand up - but he also wanted me to know that he is doing it from the right motive or for the right reason - to make eye contact, rather than to be intimidating. Voila, moral psychology.

You have a moral obligation to finish the job you said you would do.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.

In a bygone era, penalty-takers would put their laces through the ball and threaten to put a permanent bulge in the netting. For reasons that remain a mystery, the modern preference is for side-footed placement and so the dilemma of goalkeepers has changed from whether to take a guess at dive right or left to if they should dive at all. Or at least that ought to have been their reappraisal. Almunia was feted as the hero in Rome but had he and Doni stayed in the centre of their goal then the number of saves they made in the shoot-out would have been doubled.

Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

It is time to reclaim our nation's moral compass.

No one will escape justice. It's a moral and judicial duty.

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

A nation cannot be truly great without a moral compass.

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

I never had a moral problem with being gay.

The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.

These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.

Don't swallow your moral code in tablet form.

The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.

Providentially, learned habits can be unlearned, especially in the context of moral groups.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

Moral claims aren't, as a class, truth-value apt or not.

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.

One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

I think my moral ground is very much intact.

The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation.

Nothing I write ever has a moral. If it seems to a reader that there is one, that is unintentional.

Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.

The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community.

Certainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope.

No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.

I don't think that taste should be the decider of moral issues.

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.

A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.

There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.

I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves.

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.

He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson

He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray

It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty

Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests.

Hold onto power and you lose your moral compass.

I do think the U.S. has a moral and political leadership role to play.

I don't think we should be deceived that art is such a moral thing.

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues.

The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.